Do not mock my efforts to try.
We can and must do something!
Do I have to repeat their names every time we talk so that we don't always have to talk about you?
Do you really care more about “what if” than “what is?”
Can we come together on something or must we stay apart for nothing?
IMAGINE
“Imgination rules the world” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Imagination is intelligence with an erection.” ― Victor Hugo
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
― Carl Sagan
“Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” ― Albert Einstein
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ― Oscar Wilde
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
-JL
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” ― Albert Einstein
Imagine the following world, which it's within our power to create: It's illegal to sell or possess a firearm--rifle or pistol--that can hold more than six bullets. And it's illegal to sell or possess a firearm with a detachable magazine. In other words, once a shooter exhausted the six rounds, he couldn't just snap in another six-round magazine; he'd have to put six more bullets in the gun one by one.
-Robert Wright
Imagine a few common sense ideas:
• Reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban that expired in 2004.
• To own a gun, you must first have a license -- and it shouldn't be easy to get. Every citizen needs to pass written and practical tests to obtain a drivers license. Nationally, you should need a license to purchase a handgun. To acquire the license, you should be required (no loopholes e.g. gun show purchases) to pass a background check and a written examination that includes gun safety and proper storage and then the gun can be shipped to you from a licensed dealer after a waiting period. Citizens have a right to bear arms, but guns are dangerous, too. So, get a license.
-Edward DesChamps
Imagine if:
• we encouraged the CDC and NIH from researching gun violence and the effects of gun control so we knew the facts.
• established dialogs with the gun owning community about their thoughts about how to reduce gun violence.
• strengthened regulations of gun purchases as well as limited the types of guns and ammunition that are sold to the general public.
• we focused on holding gun owners responsible for their weapons
• changed media coverage of mass shootings to the larger problem - gun violence that claims 30,000 American lives every year.
• we could agree that the POSSIBILITY of armed insurrection pales before the REALITY of people dying in America today.
• we expand gun buyback programs (the kind that recently made headlines for collecting rocket launchers in CA
• if there were no ads for real-world weaponry in the midst of a Call of Duty game because the industry agreed on some guideline for the game community
• if there was ready access to universal healthcare that provided care to mentally ill people.
The only thing we cannot imagine is how much we are actually capable of doing!
